Cameras barred from US courtmartial

No television cameras or tape recorders will be allowed in the courtroom at next week’s court-martial of a US soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, a senior US officer said today.

Specialist Jeremy Sivits of Hyndman, Pennsylvania, a member of the Army’s 372nd Military Police Company, will face a military court in Baghdad on May 19 - less than a month after photos of prisoners being abused and humiliated were first broadcast on April 28.